{{Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived at a Catholic care home near Milan on Friday to start a year of community service.}}<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud last year, commuted to four hours work a week with elderly dementia patients.<\/p>\n
The care home says the 77-year-old will be treated like any other assistant.<\/p>\n
As he arrived, Berlusconi was heckled by a trade unionist in a clown hat who shouted: “To prison!”<\/p>\n
“We Italian workers have one dream in our hearts: Berlusconi in San Vittore!” he yelled, referring to a prison in Milan, before being led away by police.<\/p>\n
The billionaire has been embroiled in a string of court cases.<\/p>\n
His conviction last year was in connection with the purchase of TV rights by his firm, Mediaset, in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
But he was spared prison because the Italian legal system is lenient to the over-70s.<\/p>\n
Berlusconi chose community service rather than house arrest to serve out his commuted sentence.<\/p>\n
Reporters in Rome says this will enable him to continue to lead his centre-right party, Forza Italia, in the European elections, although he was forced to resign his seat in the upper house of parliament.<\/p>\n
Berlusconi has also had to surrender his passport and his travel within Italy is severely restricted.<\/p>\n
He also has to observe a nightly curfew at his palatial home near Milan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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